Steam-radiator base



No. 6l4,8l8. Pafented Nov. '22, I898.

A. .1. BAYLEY.

STEAM RADIATOR BA'SE.

(Application filed se 's. a, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT met.

ARTHUR J. BAYLEY, OF MILVAUKEE, VISCONSIN.

STEAM -RADIATOR BASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 614,818, dated November 22, 1898. Application filed September 8, 1897. Serial No. 650,920. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern.-

- Be it known that 1, ARTHUR J. BAYLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam- Radiator Bases; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its object to provide for the ready escape of water of condensation from return-bend steam-radiators and to prevent water-hammer in the same. Hence said invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a partlysectional view of a return-bend steam-radiator, its coils being in elevation, partly broken away, and the plane of the section through the radiator-base is indicated by line 1 1 in the fourth figure; Fig. 2, an end elevation of the radiator, partly in section, as indicated by line 2 2 in the preceding figure; Fig. 3, a sectional View of the radiator-base, the plane of the section being indicated by line 3 3 in the succeeding figure; and Fig. 4, a plan view of said radiator having parts thereof broken away andvin horizontal section.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents the transverse steam-head at one end of a return' bend steam-radiator base, and B the drain chamber of the base parallel to said steam-head under the same. The radiatorbase herein shown is designed for connection with others in parallel series. Therefore said base is formed with apertured couplingiianges 0 adjacent to both open ends of the steam-head and drain-chamber. If the base be that of a single radiator, its steam-head and drain-chamber must be headed at one end, and when thus made it may constitute that one of a series of coupled bases farthest from the live-steam and return pipes of the circulating system. The radiator-base is divided into two compartments by a longitudinal central vertical partition D, and the bottom E of said base is inclined for the greater portion of its length toward the drainchamber I3, the remainder of said bottom being angularly depressed and for the most part horizontal. an inner wall F crossing the radiator-base compartment on the steam side of partition D, and extending from the wall into said compartment is a web G, that also occupies the full width of the aforesaid compartment and has a vertical lip II,that depends below a dripaperture 1) in said wall, this wall, itslipped web G, and the depressed portion E of the base-bottom constituting a trap in which water of condensation from the steam has its rise to escape through the aforesaid dripaperture into the drain-chamber. Opposite the drain-aperture in Wall F the drainchamber is provided with a clean-out aperture having a screw-plug I for its closure.

The base-compartment on the return side of partition D is full open to the drain-chamber B below a web G, that extends into said compartment from said chamber and corresponds to the web G in the other base-compartment on the steam side of said partition, these webs being shown apertured for the passage of a coupling-bolt. However, it is not absolutely essential that the web G be provided.

In practice water of condensation accumu= lating in the trap in the base-compartment on the steam side of partition D will over Iiow through aperture 1) in wall F of drain= chamber B, and this accumulated water will prevent steam from said compartment find= ing its way through said aperture into said drain-chamber. Therefore water-hammer in the radiator is obviated. Steam from the inlet-compartment of the radiator-base passes up the coil-pipes J, then through the returnbends K and down the coil-pipes J into the outlet-compartment of said base,from whence it enters the drain-chamber to pass into the return-pipe of the circulation, the aforesaid radiator being mounted on the usual supports, as herein shown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A return-bend steam-radiator having its base provided with a transverse steam-head and a drain-chamber parallel to the steamhead under the same, a central longitudinal vertical partition in the base, and the in- The drain-chamber B has too cliued bottom of said base depressed adja- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I cent to the drain-chamber; an apertnred have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, 10 drain-chamber wall crossing the base-coniin the county of Milwaukee and State of VVispartment on the steam side of the partition, consin, in the presence of two Witnesses.

a Web extending from said Wall into said ARTHUR J. BAYLEY. compartment and a lip depending from the lVitnesscs:

web into the base-bottom depression below N. E. OLIPHANT,

the wall-aperture. B. C. ROLOFF. 

